FYI, I don't really know if you just wrote it badly in your first sentence, and you meant biodiesel, but in every country in Europe majority of the new cars sold runs on diesel. If you are a car manufacturer, and you don't offer your cars with diesel engines, you are plain dead. And don't believe what your car manufacturer says to you every diesel today can run on biodiesel. (Biodiesel is basicly normal diesel with some percent of vegetable based oil in it.) I recently had a look on an old mercedes what run on plain veggie oil. Altought I don't agree how much Europeans are ready to spend buying those oil ovens, their price is not justified by the lower fuel costs, and raise more enviromental problems, as normal petrol engines.
I agree with what you said about unresponsible car use in the US, that's because the price of petrol is still to cheap there. Compare that to the price of diesel in Europe (1Euro/liter), and petrol (1.1Euro/liter). But I think the next couple of years will solve that too.
A good point, but...
Maybe the unemployed farm worker in the disfunctional culture are obsessed with making children, because so he can get more aid money from the state for feeding the family.
Maybe you don't see agricultural robots now, and you won't see them for another few years because supporting the third world when you don't want to give direct aid to them is by buying agricultural products from them, what they can grow at home also. This is clearly not what the developed world does now, but maybe your politicians have more economic responsibility than they show on CNN, and they do not want flush the third world markets with cheap agricultural products produced by robots, for now.
If you don't like to see mexicans in the States, then what about supporting the Mexican economy by buying products from them, so the economy can improve, and they can get a decent living home. Because in all states living in relative prosperity the population number declines.
And who knows, maybe appearing 'macho' by supporting the less lucky than you will look cool in the eyes of plain suburban white girls?
(OK, in this one I also don't belive in.)
Offtopic over.
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FYI, I don't really know if you just wrote it badly in your first sentence, and you meant biodiesel, but in every country in Europe majority of the new cars sold runs on diesel. If you are a car manufacturer, and you don't offer your cars with diesel engines, you are plain dead. And don't believe what your car manufacturer says to you every diesel today can run on biodiesel. (Biodiesel is basicly normal diesel with some percent of vegetable based oil in it.) I recently had a look on an old mercedes what run on plain veggie oil. Altought I don't agree how much Europeans are ready to spend buying those oil ovens, their price is not justified by the lower fuel costs, and raise more enviromental problems, as normal petrol engines. I agree with what you said about unresponsible car use in the US, that's because the price of petrol is still to cheap there. Compare that to the price of diesel in Europe (1Euro/liter), and petrol (1.1Euro/liter). But I think the next couple of years will solve that too.
Man, if IBM markets this in 2006, NSA has it working since 2000
A good point, but... Maybe the unemployed farm worker in the disfunctional culture are obsessed with making children, because so he can get more aid money from the state for feeding the family. Maybe you don't see agricultural robots now, and you won't see them for another few years because supporting the third world when you don't want to give direct aid to them is by buying agricultural products from them, what they can grow at home also. This is clearly not what the developed world does now, but maybe your politicians have more economic responsibility than they show on CNN, and they do not want flush the third world markets with cheap agricultural products produced by robots, for now. If you don't like to see mexicans in the States, then what about supporting the Mexican economy by buying products from them, so the economy can improve, and they can get a decent living home. Because in all states living in relative prosperity the population number declines. And who knows, maybe appearing 'macho' by supporting the less lucky than you will look cool in the eyes of plain suburban white girls? (OK, in this one I also don't belive in.) Offtopic over.